(NAVAL) Sea Based Systems

RWR: HN In-DCS Unit View: PYOTR VELIKIY (SA-N-9) Originators Designation: Пётр Великий NATO Reporting Name: Kirov Class (SA-N-6 Grumble) Description: Pyotr Velikiy is the fourth Kirov-class battlecruiser of the Russian Navy. She was initially named Yuri Andropov (Russian: Юрий Андропов) after the former General Secretary of the Communist Party, but the ship's name was changed after the fall of the Soviet Union. The Russian designation for the type is "heavy nuclear missile cruiser", but Western defense commentators have resurrected the term "battlecruiser" to describe them, as they are the largest surface "line of battle" warships in the world. Pyotr Velikiy is the flagship of the Northern Fleet. Construction of the ship was delayed...

//Public Intel-Report Last updated: 20221209 RWR: SW In-DCS Unit View: Admiral Kuznetsov Aircraft Carrier (SA-N-9) Originators Designation: Admiral of the Fleet of the Soviet Union "Kuznetsov" NATO Reporting Name: SA-N-9 Gauntlet Description: Admiral of the Fleet of the Soviet Union "Kuznetsov", originally the name of the fifth Kirov-class battlecruiser) is an aircraft carrier (heavy aircraft cruiser in Russian classification) serving[clarification needed] as the flagship of the Russian Navy. She was built by the Black Sea Shipyard, the sole manufacturer of Soviet aircraft carriers, in Nikolayev within the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic (SSR) and launched in 1985, becoming fully operational in the Russian Navy in 1995. The...